Down to My Last Bad Habit

Down to My Last Bad Habit
Studio album by Vince Gill
Released	February 12, 2016
Recorded	2015
Studio	The House and Blackbird Studio (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Length	45:57
Label	MCA Nashville
Producer	Vince Gill Justin Niebank
Vince Gill chronology
Bakersfield (2013) Down to My Last Bad Habit (2016) Okie (2019)
Singles from Down to My Last Bad Habit
"Take Me Down" Released: February 1, 2016 "Me and My Girl" Released: August 8, 2016

Down to My Last Bad Habit is the fourteenth studio album by American country music singer Vince Gill. The album was released on February 12, 2016, by MCA Nashville. ^{[1] [2]}

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100 [3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
American Songwriter	[5]
Rolling Stone	[6]

Down to My Last Bad Habit received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80 based on 5 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". ^[3]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 4 on the Top Country Albums chart, with 17,000 copies sold in its first week. It is his 15th top 10 entry on the chart. ^[7] It sold a further 7,500 copies in its second week. ^[8] The album has sold 81,600 copies in the US as of March 2017. ^[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Reasons for the Tears I Cry"	Vince Gill	3:55
2.	"Down to My Last Bad Habit" (featuring Wolf Duncan)	Gill, Al Anderson	4:40
3.	"Me and My Girl"	Gill	3:19
4.	"Like My Daddy Did"	Gill	3:10
5.	"Make You Feel Real Good"	Gill	4:13
6.	"I Can't Do This"	Gill, Catt Gravitt, Brennin Hunt	3:28
7.	"My Favorite Movie"	Gill, Ashley Monroe	3:56
8.	"One More Mistake I Made" (featuring Chris Botti)	Gill, Adriana Rozario	3:23
9.	"Take Me Down" (featuring Little Big Town)	Gill, Jillian Jacqueline, Richard Marx	5:02
10.	"I'll Be Waiting for You" (featuring Cam)	Gill, Leslie Satcher	3:26
11.	"When It's Love"	Gill, Marx	3:47
12.	"Sad One Comin' On (A Song for George Jones)"	Gill	3:51
Total length:			45:57

Personnel

• Vince Gill – vocals, backing vocals (1, 4, 7, 8, 12), electric guitar, acoustic guitar (1-4, 6-12), harmony vocals (2), mandolin (11)
• Pete Wasner – Wurlitzer electric piano (1)
• Reese Wynans – Hammond B3 organ (1, 4, 5)
• Tony Harrell – Wurlitzer electric piano (2, 3, 8, 11), Hammond B3 organ (2, 3, 8-11), accordion (3), acoustic piano (4-7, 10, 12)
• Charlie Judge – keyboards (3, 6, 9), synthesizers (6, 9, 10), Hammond B3 organ (12)
• Tom Bukovac – electric guitar (1-5, 7, 8, 10-12), acoustic guitar (6, 9)
• Dean Parks – electric guitar (1, 2, 5, 6, 8-12)
• Dann Huff – electric guitar (3, 6, 9)
• Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar (7)
• Paul Franklin –steel guitar (2-4, 6-11)
• Willie Weeks – bass (1-6, 8-12)
• Michael Rhodes – bass (7)
• Steve Jordan – drums (1-6, 8-12), percussion (8, 12)
• Fred Eltringham – drums (7), percussion (7, 11)
• Eric Darken – percussion (1-4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
• Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson – harmonica (5)
• Chris Botti – trumpet (8)
• Corrina Gill – backing vocals (1), harmony vocals (8)
• Jenny Van Valkenburg – harmony vocals (1)
• Ellie Holcomb – harmony vocals (3)
• Bekka Bramlett – harmony vocals (5)
• Kim Keyes – harmony vocals (6)
• Little Big Town (Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook) – backing vocals (9)
• Cam (Camaron Ochs) – backing vocals (10)
• Charlie Worsham – harmony vocals (11)
• Alison Krauss – harmony vocals (12)

Production

• Vince Gill – producer
• Justin Niebank – producer, recording, mixing
• Drew Bollman – recording
• Matt Rausch – recording
• Brian David Willis – digital editing
• Andrew Mendelson – mastering at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Karen Naff – art direction
• Craig Allen – design
• Jim White – photography
• The Fitzgerald Hartley Co. – management

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2016) Peak position Canadian Albums (Billboard) [10] 50 UK Country Albums (OCC) [11] 5 US Billboard 200 [12] 35 US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [13] 4

Year-end charts Chart (2016) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [14] 41

References

1. "Down to My Last Bad Habit by Vince Gill on iTunes". iTunes. February 12, 2016. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
2. Moss, Marissa R. (November 19, 2015). "Vince Gill Readies New Album 'Down to My Last Bad Habit'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
3. "Reviews for Down to My Last Bad Habit by Vince Gill". Metacritic. February 12, 2016. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
4. Stephen Thomas Erlewine (February 12, 2016). "Down to My Last Bad Habit - Vince Gill | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
5. Horowitz, Hal (February 12, 2016). "Vince Gill: Down to My Last Bad Habit". Americansongwriter.com. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
6. Hermes, Will (February 10, 2016). "Vince Gill's New Album: Down to My Last Bad Habit". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
7. Jim Asker (February 23, 2016). "Joey + Rory's Bittersweet 'Hymns' Debuts at No. 1 on Top Country Albums Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
8. Bjorke, Matt (March 12, 2016). "Country Album Sales Chart: March 1, 2016". Roughstock.
9. Bjorke, Matt (March 13, 2017). "Top 10 Country Albums Sales Chart: March 13, 2017". Roughstock.
10. "Vince Gill Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard.
11. "Official Country Artists Albums Chart Top 20". Official Charts Company.
12. "Vince Gill Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.
13. "Vince Gill Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard.
14. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2016". Billboard. Retrieved July 26, 2020.